“Identity Politics” – Page 12

How identity politics fuels anti-Semitism

A damning report about the National Union of Students shows that Jew hatred is festering in ‘progressive’ circles.

Published earlier this week, an independent report into anti-Semitism at the National Union of Students (NUS) makes for dispiriting reading. Written by barrister Rebecca Tuck, the report depicts an NUS that views anti-Semitism as a second-order problem, the scale of which is exaggerated by Jewish students. Too many NUS leaders seem to believe that anti-Semitism is far less important than other forms of discrimination.

Tuck’s report is damning. ‘For at least the last decade’, she argues, ‘Jewish students have not felt welcome or included in NUS spaces or elected roles’. Indeed, many Jewish students feel that the NUS treats them as pariahs. In numerous instances, leading NUS members have consciously downplayed the significance of instances of anti-Jewish hate.

by Blazingcatfur•January 15, 2023January 14, 2023•0•"Identity Politics", Anti-Semitism and the Left

‘Deflective Whiteness’: The Latest Cockamamie Social Justice™ Race Hustle

A libbed-out white liberal arts professor named Hannah Noel has invented a whole new weapon for corporate diversity trainers and public school social workers to wield against their captive white audiences, which also conveniently serves as a tool for personal enrichment via her accompanying book, Deflective Whiteness: Co-opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics.

Turnabout is fair play.

by Blazingcatfur•January 9, 2023January 9, 2023•0•"Identity Politics"

Sorry Bryan Adams, no one has a ‘favourite’ Canadian artist anymore

For a country that has taken such pains to emphasize the Canadianness of its homegrown artists, a new poll has some surprising findings

The idea of having a favourite Canadian artist is becoming a quaint anachronism, according to the head of the Association for Canadian Studies.

Even when pressed to name their favourite Canadian musical artist, about half say they do not have one, and those who do are all over the place. Bryan Adams tops the list at five per cent, followed by Drake, Shania Twain and Michael Bublé at three per cent, then Céline Dion, Justin Bieber, the Tragically Hip and Gordon Lightfoot at two per cent.

CanCon serves only to subsidize the sort of nagging left-wing mediocrities who make immediately ignored CBC Top Ten Lists.

That’s to be expected when government gatekeeping for the arts consists of one group of toxic leftists handing out our money to their equally toxic friends.

But perhaps the single greatest factor contributing to our cultural disconnect is that Canada is no longer a nation held together by common bonds.

Face it we are balkanized to the point of failed state status because the rot of multiculturalism and destructive immigration policy has hollowed out the culture.

I do not hear a stricken nation crying out for more government subsidized DEI pap.

I can’t help but laugh when I think back on the public vigils held for the late Gord Downie. They were far more “white” than any Rob Ford event, far more white than the Trucker protest in fact. Media failed to pick up on that for some reason.

I wonder if anyone attending a Downie vigil had their bank account frozen?

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2022December 30, 2022•0•"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", "Good Intentions Paving Company", "Identity Politics", "Multiculturalism", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada

On the Asian ‘Model Minority Myth’ and Phantom White Supremacy

In 2009, as an undergraduate liberal arts student, I signed up for a decidedly Marxist sociology course called “Race, Class, and Gender Ideology,” which, based on the title, appealed to my political disposition at the time.

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2022December 24, 2022•0•"Identity Politics"

Afro-Germans?

Canadian paper spreads Holocaust distortion, human rights NGO demands response

A prominent Jewish human rights center criticized Wednesday a Canadian paper’s decision to publish an op-ed by a Ukrainian professor that distorts the Holocaust by demanding equal recognition at the nation’s Holocaust memorial of Slavic people’s suffering at the hands of the Nazis.

Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) denounced the Monday article in the Ottawa Citizen by Royal Military College of Canada Prof. Lubomyr Luciuk, in which he called the emphasis on Jewish suffering “discriminatory messaging” and “perpetuating a prejudice.”

From the Citizen article in question – “Luciuk: Ottawa’s National Holocaust Monument must include Ukrainians” … “This becomes even less comprehensible as you discover who is remembered. For example, several hundred Afro-Germans are — yet few, if any, ever ended up here. “

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2022December 23, 2022•0•"Identity Politics", Canada, Holocaust, Holodomor, WTF?

In 2023, we need a reckoning with multiculturalism

From Leicester to Telford, the poisonous influence of multiculturalism was impossible to ignore this year.

Britain remains a successful multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. But 2022 served up several brutal reminders of how quickly social cohesion can unravel under the impact of the divisive ideology of multiculturalism.

The disorder in Leicester during August and September, in which groups of largely Hindu and Muslim men fought each other for days on end, was particularly troubling. It could prove a watershed moment for community relations in modern Britain.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2022December 21, 2022•0•"Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Multiculturalism", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Great Britain: Multiculturalism and Islam Turn It Upside-Down

“Leicester has become the poster city for multicultural Britain, a place where the stunning number and size of the minorities – the 55 mosques, 18 Hindu temples, nine Sikh gurudwaras, two synagogues, two Buddhist centres and one Jain centre – are seen not as a recipe for conflict or a millstone around the city’s neck, but a badge of honour,” was how, in 2013, the British liberal newspaper The Independent celebrated the transformation of Britain’s tenth-largest city.

There are places in Europe that visited the future sooner than others: Malmö in Sweden, Trappes and Roubaix in France, Cologne in Germany, Molenbeek in Belgium, Leicester in England…

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2022December 18, 2022•0•"Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Islamophobia", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Multiculturalism", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Avi Benlolo: Silence, as antisemitism abounds at U of T Faculty of Medicine

… But here in Toronto, a new important academic paper published in the Canadian Medical Education Journal by an insider at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine (TFOM) at the University of Toronto (U of T), has yet to mobilize our leaders into some-kind of serious action. Dr. Ayelet Kuper, an associate professor in the department of medicine, spent a year as senior advisor on antisemitism in the faculty. During that time, she detailed an incredible level of antisemitism among her professional colleagues that should warrant an investigation.

You’ve been marginalized in the victim hierarchy by mass immigration, multiculturalism & diversity Avi.

Some votes matter more than others.

As of 2021, Statistics Canada listed 335,295 adherents to the Jewish religion in Canada

After Christianity, Islam was the second most commonly reported religion in Canada in 2021, with nearly 1.8 million, or 1 in 20, people.

In 20 years, the share of the Muslim population in Canada has more than doubled—up from 2.0% in 2001 to 4.9% in 2021.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2022December 17, 2022•0•"Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Islamophobia", "Multiculturalism", Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism and the Left, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Coming to America

REVIEW: ‘The Culture Transplant’ by Garett Jones

Imagine that you are a U.S. immigration officer, handing out green cards to the would-be Americans of the world. You have before you two applicants who look almost completely the same; for some arcane, unspecified bureaucratic reason, you can only approve one of them. They’re both well-educated by American standards, both bringing identical families, both passed their background checks.

The major difference is their nation of origin. One is from a nation with a strong tradition of rule of law, free markets, and democratic pluralism. The other is from a country where kleptocracy, autocracy, and socialism are standard. The difference, in other words, is the character of the society that your two would-be immigrants come from. The question is: Should this difference matter?

by Blazingcatfur•December 13, 2022December 12, 2022•0•"Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Multiculturalism"

Trudeau urged to pick a side in imported tribal conflict

Trudeau urged to tell India to stop interfering in Canadian Sikhs’ drive for independent Punjab

A secessionist Sikh group is pressing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to disavow calls from India’s envoy for Canada to crack down on funding of a movement to create a separate state in Punjab.

Sikhs for Justice, an organization headquartered in Washington, has written to Mr. Trudeau, disputing Indian High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma’s recent comments to The Globe and Mail. Sikhs for Justice has been conducting referendums in Canadian cities on Punjab independence as part of a global campaign on the matter.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2022December 12, 2022•0•"Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, WTF?

The New Blasphemies

For there to be blasphemy there needs to be religion and, in this case, I am referring to the religions of identity politics and climate-change activism. These are not merely religions, however; they are the religions of fanatics.

“But we don’t have blasphemy laws,” I hear people say when someone protests about some perceived slur on their God or Prophet. Indeed, we do not. Essentially moribund, they were abolished in England in 2008 and in Scotland in 2021. If we did, our prisons would be overflowing with the people who blaspheme against Christianity. Appropriately, British blasphemy laws only ever protected Christianity and, even then, only the Christianity of the established churches. However, the lack of such laws did not protect the right of the public to watch a film of which some Muslims disapproved or a teacher from having to go into hiding with his family for showing a cartoon they did not like. In France, the consequences for upsetting the Islamist mob can be more serious, and even fatal. Islamic extremists require no laws to discourage blasphemy; they simply take the law into their own bloody hands.

by Blazingcatfur•December 8, 2022December 8, 2022•0•"Environmentalists", "Identity Politics"

Douglas Todd: Ethnic politics is already a science in the U.S. It’s on the way in Canada

Canadians have been reluctant to probe how ethnicity affects politics. It’s finally opening up

In the U.S. polls are run constantly into the political preferences of voters based on ethnicity, in addition to gender, age, religion and other demographics.

Race-based politics has long been established in multi-ethnic cities like Chicago, New York and Miami. American pundits have also analyzed how religion and ethnicity combine, particularly since 1960 when 80 per cent of Catholics of European descent voted for John F. Kennedy.

The elite use mass immigration and official multiculturalism to balkanize Canada.

All mainstream political parties in Canada are guilty of engaging in identity politics.

Disagree and you will be labeled a racist.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2022November 25, 2022•0•"Civilizationists", "Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

After Intersectionalism

As ideology takes a back seat to intergroup competition, the future of ethnic conflict in America is going to look more like the past

The divisive racial ideology that dominated American politics for the past decade is dying. Led by minority activists and white progressives, “woke” ideology promoted a Manichean struggle between a coalition of the BIPOC, an acronym for “Black, Indigenous, and people of color” (assumed to be natural allies) against what the BIPOC Project calls a hegemonic system of “white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism.” But this vision of Black and white racial conflict, while still influential in universities and elite institutions, keeps getting rejected by American voters—as happened in political referendums on issues like policing and immigration, and most recently in the triumph of “normies” and centrists in the midterm elections.

Does this mean that Americans should expect a new era of kumbaya racial harmony? Not likely. Rather, the future may look more like the past, as America reverts to an older style of ethnic politics in which ideology takes a back seat to practical concerns and different groups compete over resources like jobs and the spoils of government spending.

by Blazingcatfur•November 22, 2022November 21, 2022•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Identity Politics"

Woke multiculturalism is national suicide: Canada is proof

In 1988, Canada officially became a multicultural country. “Did Canada culturally commit suicide?” a Catholic writer now wonders.

“Let’s not be surprised: for some years Canadian elites have dreamed of this scenario, hoping to make Canada a country of one hundred million inhabitants by the end of the century and they have just gone from dream to action”, writes Mathieu Bock-Coté, the sociologist star of French TV. “500,000 immigrants a year correspond to Canada’s vision of itself, a post-national country without an identity. The only identity is his cult of multiculturalism, which it presents as a celebration of diversity, which can even lead ot to pay homage to the niqab. Canada is engaged in an unprecedented ideological experience ”.

by Blazingcatfur•November 12, 2022November 12, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Multiculturalism"

Diversity is our 5th Columns strength! Canadian intelligence warned PM Trudeau that China covertly funded 2019 election candidates

Canadian intelligence officials have warned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that China has allegedly been targeting Canada with a vast campaign of foreign interference, which includes funding a clandestine network of at least 11 federal candidates running in the 2019 election, according to Global News sources.

Delivered to the prime minister and several cabinet members in a series of briefings and memos first presented in January, the allegations included other detailed examples of Beijing’s efforts to further its influence and, in turn, subvert Canada’s democratic process, sources said.

Says both LPC & CPC candidates were involved but I suspect it leans heavy to the Liberals. Were the NDP deemed too crazy or already in the CCP’s pocket?

If they’re letting this out I am betting it’s a lot worse. Diversity is our 5th column’s strength!

by Blazingcatfur•November 7, 2022November 7, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Progressive Paradise", Canada